Note: This is a report on a dietary approach to health that may not be suitable for everyone, especially those with diabetes 1 and liver issues. Nevertheless, some of you may find interesting dietary information even if this diet doesn’t suit you.

The ketogenic diet is high fat, moderate protein, and low carbohydrates, especially refined carbs. Resisting or reversing diabetes 2, high triglycerides levels, obesity, and inflammatory responses that lead to autoimmune diseases. It even promotes heart health, and the ketogenic diet is not as restrictive as the Paleo Diet.

Since the highly publicized but flawed Seven Nations Study during the mid-1900s, which inspired the medical establishment’s urging to cut back on all fat consumption, heart disease has become this nation’s number one disease killer, obesity is all too common, and diabetes 2 has increased exponentially.

The low and no fat diet myth is slowly losing its grip as more evidence appears to disprove its false health merits. In the over half century span of this bogus health spell that influenced the food industry to create all sorts of low and no fat products, this food folly has contributed greatly to our population’s poor health.

Recent Studies Debunking Low Fat Dietary DogmaThe most recent study showed people who consumed low fat milk had a 53 percent higher chance of diabetes 2 and obesity issues than those who drank whole fat milk. It was conducted by Tufts University and published in March of 2016.

Researchers analyzed fatty acid biomarkers against diabetes incidents of 3,333 adults aged 30-75 years from nurse and health practitioner data bases as far back as 1988.

An earlier Swedish study involved with 1782 men aged 40 – 60 published in 2013 came in with this conclusion: “A high intake of dairy fat was associated with a lower risk of central obesity and a low dairy fat intake was associated with a higher risk of central obesity.” (Study Source)

An even earlier study, published in 2008, proved a ketogenic diet surpasses a low glycemic diet for diabetes management. While both diets do encourage less carbohydrate intake, the ketogenic diet encourages higher fat intake. And it is more effective at preventing or reversing diabetes 2 than simply cutting back on carbs. (Study Source)

The Mechanics of Ketone Body Production

Cellular metabolism to create energy takes place in the cells’ mitochondria. The primary fuel is glucose, which is known as blood sugar. Glucose has to combine with oxygen in the process known as cellular respiration.

Carbohydrates are effective. But excess carbs create problems, especially with all the refined carbohydrates, such as sugar, processed refined grain products, and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) also called “corn syrup” that are ubiquitous in processed foods that most indulge.

Another mitochondria fuel is provided by ketone bodies that are the essence of a ketogenic diet. Ketones or ketone bodies, which are compounds converted from fatty acids by the liver that can bypass the insulin glucose route for energy.

There are several cases of cancer patients using extreme ketogenic diets to reverse their cancer. That’s because cancer cells require glucose fermentation as their fuel. So eliminating or greatly reducing glucose starves cancer cells.

A milder ketogenic diet approach with less carbohydrates, moderate protein, but with at least half of the food consumed high in fats, is now considered a solution to many dietary issues that create the bad health too many suffer.

Ironically, contrary to the dietary fat causes heart disease myth that ignited the no and low fat food industry’s customer base boom, the heart utilizes ketones from fat for its energy and for building the heart muscle. (Source)

Some of us are so used to refined carbohydrates that our bodies have a harder time converting to ketosis than others less polluted with the Standard American Diet (SAD). So gradually shifting by first eliminating the most obvious processed carbs and sugars then slowly adding fats is recommended.

You may have read or heard that too many ketone bodies in your blood is dangerous. That’s called ketoacidosis. Many health professionals confuse destructive ketoacidosis with ketosis, which is healthy. Ketoacidosis occurs when one is saddled with not enough insulin, as in diabetes 1.

Diabetes 2 occurs from insulin resistance. The pancreas produces enough insulin, but utilizing it is blocked. Ketosis provides the energy needed for reversing diabetes 2 as well as helping to prevent it. Also, body fat is discouraged and obesity is reversed with ketosis.

The liver produces ketones from fatty acids. Fasting for several days automatically shifts the body’s metabolic paradigm from glucose to ketones, and there have been many who have done well with fasting, including this reporter.

Types of Dietary Fat for the Ketogenic Diet

They can be unsaturated or saturated fats, the ones that were taboo according to the false healthy heart dogma of over a half century. The liver has the easiest chore of converting fatty acids into ketones with coconut oil.

Coconut oil contains medium chain fatty acids, which convert the easiest and fastest. That’s why people suffering from dementia ranging from mild to Alzheimer’s benefit greatly from consuming coconut oil. Their brain’s are suffering from insulin resistance, causing less glucose metabolism. Alzheimer’s is even considered by many as diabetes type 3.

Here are other high fat foods recommended for a healthy ketogenic diet:

-Avocados

-Organic, grass-fed meat

-Grass-fed milk products

-Raw nuts such as almonds, pecans and seeds.

-Olive Oil

-Real butter from pastured cow milk

-Unheated organic nut oils

-Dark Chocolate

All of these should be from organic sources, not factory farms. Raw milk products are ideal if available. Raw tree nuts contain both saturated and unsaturated fats.

Plant fats such as olive oil, avocados, and peanut butter are unsaturated fatty acids that can also be converted into ketones to create ketosis. A ketogenic diet demands half or more of your food intake be fat with some protein while greatly reducing refined carbohydrates.

The ketogenic diet could be considered anti-aging as well. Aging markers are reduced by ketogenic dieting. Consider adding fatty foods to your diet with smaller meals. A gram of fat offers twice the calories of a gram of other food sources. And fatty food sources should not be processed or polluted.

Paul Fassais a contributing staff writer for REALfarmacy.com. His pet peeves are the Medical Mafia’s control over health and the food industry and government regulatory agencies’ corruption. Paul’s contributions to the health movement and global paradigm shift are well received by truth seekers. Visit his blog by following this link and follow him on Twitter here